PCI DSS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for PCI DSS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PCI DSS over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 332 440
Rank change year-on-year +9 +108 -61
Contract jobs citing PCI DSS 75 115 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.50% 0.22%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.52% 3.38% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 90 50
10th Percentile £440 £414 £356
25th Percentile £478 £500 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £539
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +13.64% +19.78%
75th Percentile £644 £700 £630
90th Percentile £690 £838 £789
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +8.91%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

PCI DSS is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,980 3,406 4,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.29% 14.86% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,736 2,222 3,087
10th Percentile £250 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £363 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £455
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +6.81% +7.06%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -2.86% +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 194 202
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.50
25th Percentile £12.72 £18.02 £14.83
Median hourly rate £18.97 £36.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.67% +64.77% +4.76%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.62 £48.56
90th Percentile £68.87 £77.50 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £22.34 £37.50 £27.73
% change year-on-year -40.43% +35.23% +32.05%

PCI DSS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PCI DSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PCI DSS in the UK excluding London

PCI DSS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PCI DSS in the UK excluding London

PCI DSS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PCI DSS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PCI DSS in the UK excluding London

PCI DSS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PCI DSS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PCI DSS in the UK excluding London

PCI DSS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PCI DSS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -13 25 £525 -25.00% 13
North of England +13 23 £500 -3.38% 9
South West +19 19 £550 -15.38% 3
North West +17 17 £563 +36.36% 6
Scotland +39 8 £650 +51.52% 1
Yorkshire +3 5 £395 -26.51% 2
Midlands +23 4 £588 +2.17% 13
East Midlands +13 4 £588 -6.00% 6
East of England +8 2 £675 +5.88% 2
PCI DSS
UK

PCI DSS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.00%) AWS
2 9 (12.00%) Azure
3 3 (4.00%) GCP
3 3 (4.00%) GitHub
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (2.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.67%) SaaS
4 2 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.33%) IaaS
5 1 (1.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.67%) Firewall
2 5 (6.67%) Network Security
2 5 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 5 (6.67%) VPN
3 4 (5.33%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (4.00%) BGP
4 3 (4.00%) LAN
4 3 (4.00%) MPLS
4 3 (4.00%) OSPF
4 3 (4.00%) SAN
4 3 (4.00%) WAN
5 2 (2.67%) CTI
5 2 (2.67%) DNS
6 1 (1.33%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.33%) IPsec
6 1 (1.33%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (2.67%) Big Data
1 2 (2.67%) Hadoop
1 2 (2.67%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (4.00%) Burp Suite
3 2 (2.67%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.67%) Capybara
3 2 (2.67%) GitLab
3 2 (2.67%) Gradle
3 2 (2.67%) JIRA
3 2 (2.67%) Maven
3 2 (2.67%) Postman
4 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.33%) Selenium
4 1 (1.33%) TestCafe
General
1 18 (24.00%) Finance
2 16 (21.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.00%) Manufacturing
4 8 (10.67%) Marketing
5 7 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (9.33%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Back Office
7 2 (2.67%) Banking
7 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.67%) Retail
7 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.33%) Electronics
8 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (28.00%) Architect
2 15 (20.00%) Lead
3 13 (17.33%) Senior
4 10 (13.33%) Consultant
5 9 (12.00%) Lead Architect
6 7 (9.33%) Security Architect
6 7 (9.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Analyst
7 6 (8.00%) Security Consultant
8 5 (6.67%) DOORS Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Integration Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Project Manager
8 5 (6.67%) Senior Integration Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Software Integration Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Systems Integration Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Compliance Analyst
9 4 (5.33%) Head of Operations
9 4 (5.33%) Head of Security
9 4 (5.33%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.67%) React
1 2 (2.67%) SAML
1 2 (2.67%) Spring Boot
1 2 (2.67%) WebKit
2 1 (1.33%) JWT
2 1 (1.33%) Kafka
2 1 (1.33%) OAuth
2 1 (1.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 8 (10.67%) CESG
3 7 (9.33%) Security Posture
4 3 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.00%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.33%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.33%) Replication
6 1 (1.33%) Smart Energy
6 1 (1.33%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.00%) Windows
2 10 (13.33%) Linux
3 7 (9.33%) Unix
4 3 (4.00%) Kali Linux
4 3 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (37.33%) Information Security
2 22 (29.33%) Cybersecurity
3 19 (25.33%) Risk Management
4 17 (22.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (20.00%) Security Operations
6 14 (18.67%) Agile
7 10 (13.33%) Customer Requirements
8 9 (12.00%) Security Architecture
9 8 (10.67%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (10.67%) Decision-Making
9 8 (10.67%) Information Assurance
9 8 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (10.67%) ITIL
9 8 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (9.33%) Budgeting
10 7 (9.33%) Roadmaps
10 7 (9.33%) Systems Engineering
10 7 (9.33%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (9.33%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.33%) Python
2 5 (6.67%) Java
3 3 (4.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.00%) Ruby
4 2 (2.67%) Go
4 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.33%) C
5 1 (1.33%) C++
5 1 (1.33%) Perl
5 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (21.33%) Degree
2 14 (18.67%) CISSP
3 12 (16.00%) CISM
4 11 (14.67%) CompTIA Security+
4 11 (14.67%) Security Cleared
5 10 (13.33%) Master's Degree
6 9 (12.00%) CISA
6 9 (12.00%) SC Cleared
6 9 (12.00%) SSCP
7 8 (10.67%) CEH
7 8 (10.67%) CISMP
7 8 (10.67%) ISACA
7 8 (10.67%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (5.33%) OSCP
9 3 (4.00%) AWS Certification
10 2 (2.67%) CCNP
10 2 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (2.67%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (2.67%) PhD
11 1 (1.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (34.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (29.33%) NIST
3 18 (24.00%) GDPR
4 13 (17.33%) HIPAA
5 6 (8.00%) GRC
6 5 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (5.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (4.00%) COBIT
8 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (2.67%) COSO
9 2 (2.67%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (1.33%) NCSC
10 1 (1.33%) PSD2
10 1 (1.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.00%) Docker
4 2 (2.67%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (8.00%) Terraform
2 5 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 3 (4.00%) Nessus
5 2 (2.67%) Ansible
5 2 (2.67%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (1.33%) Backup Exec
6 1 (1.33%) CA Service Virtualization
6 1 (1.33%) SCCM
6 1 (1.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (9.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.00%) VMware
3 4 (5.33%) Cisco
4 3 (4.00%) Splunk
5 2 (2.67%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.67%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.67%) Citrix
5 2 (2.67%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.67%) Databricks
5 2 (2.67%) Rapid7
5 2 (2.67%) Teradata
6 1 (1.33%) CA
6 1 (1.33%) Darktrace
6 1 (1.33%) EMC
6 1 (1.33%) Google
6 1 (1.33%) McAfee
6 1 (1.33%) Micro Focus
6 1 (1.33%) Netskope
6 1 (1.33%) Sophos
6 1 (1.33%) Veritas